Job Description
Just imagine transforming a traditional IT support function into a high-performing engineering organization that enables the future of digital services. The strategic drive for this is clear, but can you be part of shaping the details and making it real?
About the role
As our Senior Manager & Competency Leader, you'll lead a local Onsite Technology team while contributing as a key member of a global leadership team. You'll bring together people-leadership, technical insight, project delivery, stakeholder influence, and transformation leadership to strengthen engineering capabilities and build a future-ready organization. Alongside leading and developing the team, you'll oversee IT infrastructure projects across the Americas region, including new offices, expansions, relocations, and partnerships with external technology providers.
Required Qualifications
- Led complex IT infrastructure projects including new offices, office expansions, or relocations, covering planning, budget management, supplier coordination, risk management, and delivery.
- Managed external IT partners delivering onsite technology services.
- Drove a transition from traditional IT support toward an engineering-led operating model.
- Implemented modern ways of working that improved technology delivery consistency and reliability.
- Built and developed technical teams by identifying capability gaps and creating structured development plans.
- Established effective partnerships with business stakeholders and global technology or product teams.
- Delivered automation initiatives that improved IT operations or service delivery.
- Led teams using agile ways of working to improve collaboration and delivery outcomes.
- A skilled, engaged, and high-performing Onsite Technology team.
- Clear priorities, accountability, and alignment with business objectives.
- Strong engineering, automation, and proactive technology enablement capabilities.
- Consistent delivery of local technology projects across the region.
- Trusted partnerships across business and digital technology teams.
- Meaningful contributions to organizational strategy and transformational change as part of the global leadership team.
If you've worked in a role where you delivered complex technology projects, transformed IT operations, and developed technical teams, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is your ability to combine strong leadership with practical delivery, creating measurable improvements for both people and technology.
Life on the team
You'll join Hubs, Offices & Sites Onsite Technology within Digital Technology. The team provides the local presence and engineering expertise needed to bring digital products to life while acting as a bridge between business stakeholders and product teams. We work in global agile rhythms with regular planning, demonstrations, retrospectives, and weekly stand-ups. You'll be part of a culture that values strategic thinking, problem solving, simplifying complexity, technical excellence, ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement in a hybrid working environment.
What success looks like
Success means helping the team evolve into an engineering-driven organization recognized for consistent, high-quality service delivery. Over the next 12 to 18 months, you'll support the shift toward more project and implementation work while strengthening local technology deployments and reliable operations. You'll work closely with Regional GMs, Lead Engineers, Competency Leads, and Digital project teams, helping shape both regional outcomes and global direction.
Please note: If you require any reasonable accommodation or adjustments throughout the application process, please let us know. We will work with you to meet your needs.
This position is Senior Manager level. Relocation support is not offered.
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Compensation
The salary for this position has a range of 134.750,00 $ - 202.126,00 $ based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
What’s in it for you?
Here are some of what to expect:
Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based
Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme
Your workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.
Hybrid Working: Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.
Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here
We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.
The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.
We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”
The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.
Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.
We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.
Online Application Accessibility Statement; which is intended for people with disabilities - LEGO systems endeavors to make www.LEGO.com/jobs accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our web site or need assistance completing the application process, please contact the HR Service Desk at 1.860-763-7777, option #3. Please note, these communication channels should be used for those having difficulty accessing our on-line channels, not to inquire about job opportunities.
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Skills Required
- Experience leading complex IT infrastructure projects involving new offices, expansions, or relocations, including planning, budget management, supplier coordination, risk management, and delivery.
- Experience managing external IT partners delivering onsite technology services.
- Experience transitioning traditional IT support toward an engineering-led operating model.
- Experience implementing modern ways of working that improve technology delivery consistency and reliability.
- Experience building and developing technical teams, including identifying capability gaps and creating structured development plans.
- Experience establishing partnerships with business stakeholders and global technology or product teams.
- Experience delivering automation initiatives that improve IT operations or service delivery.
- Experience leading teams using agile ways of working to improve collaboration and delivery outcomes.
The LEGO Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about The LEGO Group and has not been reviewed or approved by The LEGO Group.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is generally positioned as competitive across many roles and markets, with benchmarking against local markets and an expressed commitment to equal pay. Total compensation is often framed as stronger when considering the full package rather than base salary alone.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is described as notably expansive, with substantial fully paid time for primary and secondary caregivers and additional paid caregiver leave. Leave is also described as continuing to accrue other rewards such as vacation and bonus eligibility during the leave period.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Benefits are described as extending beyond core insurance into mental health and wellbeing support, including assistance programs, mindfulness resources, ergonomic setups, and fitness-related offerings. Brand-specific lifestyle perks such as sizable product discounts are highlighted as a meaningful part of the overall rewards experience.
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What We Do
We are the LEGO Group, the company behind the world’s most loved LEGO® bricks. Our brand name derived from the two Danish words Leg Godt, which mean “Play Well”. We’ve been sparking imaginations and inspiring the builders of tomorrow since 1932. This is our mission and what motivates our colleagues around the world every day. Today, we remain proudly family-owned with headquarters in Billund, Denmark. We have regional hubs in Boston, USA; London, UK; Shanghai, China; and Singapore, as well as 7 manufacturing facilities around the world. These places are home to 28,000+ colleagues in everything from design and engineering to digital technology and marketing. Together we learn, imagine and build – creating play experiences that are sold in over 130 countries worldwide. A purposeful and responsible global brand where creativity helps to inspire builders all around the world. Just imagine being part of that!
